Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Unseen poems written by Cecil Day-Lewis and W H Auden for a former schoolboy pupil in 1930 have come to light, showing a list of off-the-cuff rhymes in stark contrast to their most famous works. The ...